Medicine

(med/-is-in) [medic in a, medicine; from mederi, to heal]. I. Any substance given for the cure of disease. 2. The science of the treatment of disease; the healing art. In a restricted sense, that branch of the healing art dealing with internal diseases. M., Clinic, the study of disease by the bedside of the patient. M., Forensic, or M., Legal, medical jurisprudence, or medicine in its relation to questions of law. M., Practice of, the practical application of the principles taught by the Theory of M. M., Preventive, that which aims at the prevention of disease. 383